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! Patient !! Admitted for/Condition | ! Patient !! Admitted for/Condition | ||
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| [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] || Plead insanity during | | [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] || Plead insanity during trial for bank robbery, after being framed by Roberto. Admitted again for being unable to differentiate fantasy from reality. | ||
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| [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] || Plead insanity during | | [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] || Plead insanity during trial for bank robbery, after being framed by Roberto. Admitted to HAL Institute as the human insanity facility was full, due to Judge Whitey considering homelessness a mental illness. | ||
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| [[Malfunctioning Eddie]] || His explosion problem got worse, and his prices turned out ''really'' to be insane. | | [[Malfunctioning Eddie]] || His explosion problem got worse, and his prices turned out ''really'' to be insane. | ||
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| [[Rosie the Robot Maid]] || Started believing that everything must be clean, and murdered Astro and Elroy because they were dirty. | | [[Rosie the Robot Maid]] || Started believing that everything must be clean, and murdered Astro and Elroy because they were dirty. | ||
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| | | Teapot Robot || Unknown. | ||
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Revision as of 05:00, 25 April 2009
| HAL Institute | |
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| Location | New New York, Earth |
| First appearance | "Insane in the Mainframe" (3ACV11)  |
The HAL Institute is an asylum for criminally insane robots. Doctors and nurses use shocks of electricity to calm down their patients during interviews with psychiatrists. For a brief portion of time, Fry was admitted to the hospital after being found guilty of aiding in a bank robbery.
Known Patients Admitted
| Patient | Admitted for/Condition |
|---|---|
| Bender | Plead insanity during trial for bank robbery, after being framed by Roberto. Admitted again for being unable to differentiate fantasy from reality. |
| Fry | Plead insanity during trial for bank robbery, after being framed by Roberto. Admitted to HAL Institute as the human insanity facility was full, due to Judge Whitey considering homelessness a mental illness. |
| Malfunctioning Eddie | His explosion problem got worse, and his prices turned out really to be insane. |
| Roberto | For holding up the same bank twice, which was deemed insane. Later revealed to have been built as an insane robot. |
| Unit 2013 | Thinks he is human. |
| Hair Robot | Too obsessed with his hair. |
| Pay 'n' Chew Robot | Does not really appear to be insane, but rather ill. |
| Norm | Receives transmissions from the CIA on his teeth. |
| Frankie | Thinks he works in a lunchroom, and so was put to work in the Institute's lunchroom. Possibly not insane. |
| Lincolnbot | While he does think he is Abraham Lincoln, he has split personalities, all of them Lincoln. His comment may suggest his personalities split is up to 200. |
| Mad Hatterbot | From Alice in Wonderland, his insanity is obvious. |
| Rosie the Robot Maid | Started believing that everything must be clean, and murdered Astro and Elroy because they were dirty. |
| Teapot Robot | Unknown. |
Additional Info
Trivia
- The Institute is named after HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey who was an insane artificial intelligence.
